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On Sunday 16 January 2005 7:56 pm, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:37:00 +0000 Simon Waters wrote:apt-file can be used to handle things apt knows about, but that aren't installed. It is a rather odd situation to want to know what package a file is in, when you don't have it installed anywhere, and nothing you have depends on it. What file are you looking for?When compiling from source it doesn't care about any apt repositories,
I was going to say exactly the same thing - compiling from source is always the time when a Debian user starts looking at the apt tree from the other direction. I remember my problems with GnuCash - so my advice is usually, Google. There are lists out there of the packages required to compile certain programs - often in public mailing list archives, like ours. dependencies gnucash brings up lots and lots of pages in Google.
so it won't install any libraries or whatever on which it depends. It'd be useful to be able to go "Aha! It needs X.Y.Z, have I got it?"
I've always gone to the Debian website and used the package search: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Search engine forms are near the bottom of the page. These have a useful add-on that you can tell which version is in which distribution - important when adding a dependency of your own. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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